As you may have heard, five Lancers have formed a band named Tidal Fury, and they're going on tour. What possessed five glunite-infused warriors to perform rock'n'roll onstage? We asked them! It looks like they've been busy, because they don't seem to have the same story!
SONAR
"I guess I just kinda fell into the band. Aura was doing a benefit concert for my home Shard, to raise money for my people to rebuild. And so obviously I had to come to the concert. And she's singing this song, and suddenly she drags me up on stage and sticks a microphone in my hand, and before I know what hit me, I'm singing too. I don't even know where the words came from, they were just there. And the audience freaked out. So Aura said we better make ourselves into a band before we lose all the magic smoke, you know?
AURA
"Sonar won't tell you this, but she's a trained musician. I mean, that was her thing before the crab people invade. She knows all the old legendary songs of her people. But after the invasion, she couldn't sing, because, you know, remembering all those old songs made her think about what had happened to her people. So I set up a benefit concert so she'd have to come, and then I tricked her into getting onstage. And then all her instincts kicked in like I knew they would! The audience loved her! And she got the taste of it, and she wanted to do it again and again. So we decided to make a band. I kinda had to put my solo career on hold. I mean, I couldn't exactly say no."
HOLLOWPOINT
"People don't know this about me, but I am classically trained guitarist when I am young. Is maybe where I am so good around a rifle. Precision is important. Precision and rhythm. So after we go to benefit concert, Aura says we must make band. They don't have guitarist, but Cly says "Hey Tatiana, you play guitar right?" I want to punch him because I don't play rock'n'roll at that time. But is not so very hard. Three, four chords all you need. Is not so hard as 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra' by Francisco Tárrega. So I agree to be guitarist. But honestly, I don't like where hundred thousand people can see me in spotlights. I make them turn spotlights off on me. If they would let me play in orchestra pit, I would. Or better, I remote in from rooftop somewhere."
KISMET
"There's a kind of meditation we do in the Yong Shard. You probably have not heard about it. Rhythm meditation. It's not like sitting on a pillow and clearing your mind. You have to keep five or six different rhythms going in your head. From there to drums is less of a leap than you'd think. And someone, Sonar or Aura, I can't remember, asked if I played any instruments. I said, I've never played drums before, but maybe I can pick it up, how soon are we playing? And they all thought that was hilarious. Until I bought a drum kit and I showed them."
NITRO
"I was tinkering around with some audio tech, you know, loops, flangers, phase shifters, and Kismet walked in and said it sounded like some music from back home. I said, it's not music, I'm just messing around with the tech! And she said, if it sounds like music, it's music. And she said Aura wanted to go on tour, and I should bring my music loops. So I said, why not. It's not every day you get invited to tour with a major pop star, huh? And somehow she worked all my sounds into her songs. Her and Sonar. The way they did that duet, where she pretended to drag Sonar on stage -- they must have been practicing it forever. I don't know how they do it. I'm just messing around. But don't tell them that! They think I'm a musician."
